Populations of wildlife that the bushfires haven't already wiped out are threatened by thousands of feral horses trampling the land.

The nature of our fires is changing rapidly, and the adaptation of our plants and animals won't be able to keep pace.

Australian scientists warned the country could face a climate change-driven bushfire crisis by 2020. It arrived on schedule.

"So many of us are wondering: have lives spent furthering conservation been wasted?"

Carcasses can play a positive role as landscapes recover from fire, providing rich nutrients for other native animal, microbial and plant species.

Australia has a long history of bushfires. But several factors make eastern Australia’s recent crisis different to infamous bushfires in the past.

We estimate most of the range and population of between 20 and 100 threatened species will have been burnt.

The Victorian government’s logging business is cutting native forests on steep slopes, in an apparent rule breach that threatens water supplies.

More concerning than the death of a tree is how we waste them afterwards.